How much does Gemma 4 26B A4B cost per million tokens?

Gemma 4 26B A4B costs $0.09 per million input tokens and $0.3 per million output tokens at list price, and $0.05 per million cached input tokens.

What is the context window of Gemma 4 26B A4B ?

Gemma 4 26B A4B accepts up to 262,144 tokens of context and returns up to 235,929 output tokens.

How much do 1,000 chat messages cost with Gemma 4 26B A4B ?

About $0.24, assuming 1,000 input + 500 output tokens per message.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Gemma 4 26B A4B ?

In the same price range, Qwen Qwen3.7 Flash ($0.03 / $0.13), DeepSeek DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 ($0.042 / $0.084), Qwen Qwen3.5-9B ($0.1 / $0.15) cost less per token. Quality differs: test on your own prompts.

Where can I buy Google API credits for less?

Discount credit books resell OpenRouter usage below face value within their depth, OpenRouter adds a 5.5% card fee, and Google sells its own credits at face value. The live table on this page ranks them for $100 of usage.

Google · live price

Gemma 4 26B A4B API pricing

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is an instruction-tuned Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Google DeepMind. Despite 25.2B total parameters, only 3.8B activate per token during inference — delivering near-31B quality at...

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Input: $0.09; per 1M tokens
Output: $0.3; per 1M tokens
Cached input: $0.05; per 1M tokens
Context: 262K; 236K max output

List price from OpenRouter, which passes Google's price through without markup. Refreshed hourly. Released April 3, 2026. Model id google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it.

What Gemma 4 26B A4B costs in practice

At list price, before any batch or caching discount.

1,000 chat messages

$0.24

1,000 input + 500 output tokens each

1,000 RAG questions

$0.87

8,000 input + 500 output tokens each

100 coding-agent steps

$0.33

30,000 input + 2,000 output tokens each, no caching

Gemma 4 26B A4B price history

No price change since we started tracking on 2026-10-01. We record prices daily; changes will show here.

Gemma 4 26B A4B price by host

Darkbloom serves it below list price right now. Route to it to pay less on every token.

Darkbloom$0.042 in · $0.22 out · 131K ctx · 100.0% uptime 24h
DekaLLM$0.06 in · $0.33 out · 262K ctx · 99.7% uptime 24h
NextBit$0.09 in · $0.3 out · 262K ctx · 99.9% uptime 24h
CoreWeave$0.1 in · $0.3 out · 262K ctx · 100.0% uptime 24h
Cloudflare$0.1 in · $0.3 out · 256K ctx · 99.7% uptime 24h
Makora$0.08 in · $0.32 out · 256K ctx · 98.7% uptime 24h
DeepInfra$0.07 in · $0.34 out · 262K ctx · 99.3% uptime 24h
Venice$0.13 in · $0.4 out · 256K ctx · 99.5% uptime 24h
Parasail$0.13 in · $0.4 out · 262K ctx · 99.7% uptime 24h
Novita$0.13 in · $0.4 out · 262K ctx · 99.6% uptime 24h
SiliconFlow$0.14 in · $0.4 out · 262K ctx · 94.9% uptime 24h
Io Net$0.15 in · $0.5 out · 262K ctx · 97.7% uptime 24h
Google$0.15 in · $0.6 out · 262K ctx · 96.4% uptime 24h

Where to buy Google credits for less

Gemma 4 26B A4B costs the same per token everywhere it's sold through OpenRouter. What changes is the price of the credits. Live quotes for $100 of usage:

#	Where you buy	You payYou pay for $100.00 of usage	vs list price	Price source
1	OrbioCardCheapest right now Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee and card processing, both included in the quote.	$85.10 incl. $2.60 card processing	-14.9%	live quote
2	smaaartCard Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee on face value. Card processing and taxes shown at checkout.	$95.00 + card processing and tax at checkout (not in this number)	-5.0%	live quote
3	Direct from the labCard Prepaid credits at face value (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google…). Taxes may apply.	$100.00 no top-up fee	list price	face value
4	OpenRouterCrypto 5% on crypto purchases. No markup on model prices.	$105.00 fees included	+5.0%	published fee
5	OpenRouterCard 5.5% on card purchases, $0.80 minimum. No markup on model prices.	$105.50 fees included	+5.5%	published fee

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Gemma 4 26B A4B cost calculator

Enter your monthly tokens to price your own usage.

Model$0.09 in / $0.3 out per 1M tokens · list price, liveInput tokens / month (millions)Output tokens / month (millions)

Usage at list price$7.50/ month(quotes below are for $8.00: purchases run from $5.00 to $10,000.00)

Cheaper alternatives to Gemma 4 26B A4B

Other labs' models in the same price range or the one below, cheaper per token.

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash	$0.03	$0.13	$0.055	1M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423	$0.042	$0.084	$0.052	1.0M
Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B	$0.1	$0.15	$0.112	262K
Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash	$0.065	$0.26	$0.114	1M
Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512	$0.1	$0.1	$0.1	131K
OpenAI: gpt-oss-safeguard-20b	$0.075	$0.3	$0.131	131K

Other Google models

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Gemma 4 31B	$0.09	$0.34	$0.152	262K
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview	$0.25	$1.50	$0.563	1.0M
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite	$0.25	$1.50	$0.563	1.0M
Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)	$0.5	$3	$1.13	66K
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools	$2	$12	$4.50	1.0M
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview	$2	$12	$4.50	1.0M

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